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13246 [lbo-talk] Dispiriting Suburbs? -- rank: 1000

On Oct 19, 2006, at 9:11 AM, Carl Remick wrote: > I think NYC sucks too. I used to be a daily commuter into > Manhattan from Long Island but now come in only occasionally for > onsite freelance work. I've been in the city this week, for > example, and, for the first time in many years, took the subway to > work (because of a broken toe) instead of walking from Penn Sta. to > Rockefeller Center. I was amazed to find the subway -- despite its > vaunted comeback -- stinks (l ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 19 08:55:03 PDT 2006

13247 [lbo-talk] Moderates in Kansas Decide They're Not in GOP Anymore -- rank: 1000

It does seem like something big is happening here. 16% approval ratings are extremely rare in polling, yet the Republican Congress just earned that; in Gallup's measures of personal approval, Jesse Jackson is at 34% and Michael Jackson, 18%. The GOP can look to Paris Hilton's 15% for solace. You've got to wonder if the right-wing's dominance of the last 25-30 years is coming to an end. But there ain't much waiting in the wings. Doug

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13248 [lbo-talk] Middle America may go sour over Iraq -- rank: 1000

On Oct 18, 2006, at 8:08 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > What is the minimum population to be regarded as a "metro" area? B/ > N is > over 100,000. We're certainly not "suburban," but neither are we > "rural." And 100k doesn't feel all that "metro" either. Bloomington-Normal is a metropolitan area, with a pop of 159,013 in 2005, making it the 238th largest metro area. The smallest metro area is about 56,000. The top 5 metro areas account for 18% of ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 18 21:10:43 PDT 2006

13249 [lbo-talk] the Israeli army - full of slackers? -- rank: 1000

I recorded a long (50-min) interview with Tariq Ali today (on the Middle East & Latin America), which I'll run in a few weeks. In it, Tariq said that an under-reported aspect of Israel's unhappy experience in Lebanon was that, in contrast with a stoked Hezbollah, the IDF is now full of members of the global slacker class who just didn't want to be there. Any thoughts on this? Doug

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13250 [lbo-talk] Dispiriting Suburbs? -- rank: 1000

On Oct 18, 2006, at 7:30 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote: > Here's my favorite math: if each of the 6B people in the world were > given ~1250 sq feet, you wouldn't fill Texas. Of course they'd need a lot of nonresidential space to support their lifestyles. Isn't that the point of those calculations that show that if everyone lived like me we'd need 2 or 3 planets? Doug

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Date:	Wed Oct 18 19:53:03 PDT 2006

13251 [lbo-talk] Dispiriting Suburbs? -- rank: 1000

On Oct 18, 2006, at 7:30 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote: > Doug: how big is your (rent controlled) apartment? 550

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13252 [lbo-talk] Middle America may go sour over Iraq -- rank: 1000

On Oct 18, 2006, at 6:30 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Much of America is most likely suburban rather than urban or rural. Well yeah; about 50% of the pop. But suburbs are parts of metropolitan areas, and about 75% of the US pop lives in metro areas. The trope that so annoys me is that rural America is "real" and the rest is, presumably, unreal.

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Date:	Wed Oct 18 15:55:39 PDT 2006

13253 [lbo-talk] Congressional approval at 16% -- rank: 1000

[Well, if the admin engineered the gas price decline, which I don't believe, it ain't working too good.] <http://online.wsj.com/article/SB116120412623296795.html?mod=djemalert> Voters' Approval of Congress Falls To 16%, Lowest Point in 12 Years By JACKIE CALMES and JOHN HARWOOD October 18, 2006 6:36 p.m. Public support for Republicans' control of the U.S. Congress has eroded to its lowest point since the party took over 12 years ago. And with just 19 days until the midterm elections, bo ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 18 15:50:28 PDT 2006

13254 [lbo-talk] Dispiriting Suburbs? -- rank: 1000

On Oct 18, 2006, at 6:03 PM, Jesse Lemisch wrote: > I always disliked Malvina Reynolds' "Little Boxes.... all made out of > ticky-tacky," etc., as contemptuous of people, including > suburbanites, who > live in those little boxes. I was therefore quite surprised in reading > Bettina Aptheker's excellent new memoir, Intimate Politics, to hear > that > Reynolds was a Communist. It had been my experience that Communists, > regardless of their other problems, did no ...

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13255 [lbo-talk] GOPers longing for Pink Purge -- rank: 1000

Los Angeles Times - October 18, 2006 Some Seek 'Pink Purge' in the GOP By Johanna Neuman, Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON In recent years, the Republican Party aimed to broaden its appeal with a "big-tent" strategy of reaching out to voters who might typically lean Democratic. But now a debate is growing within the GOP about whether the tent has become too big by including gays whose political views may conflict with the goals of the party's powerful evangelical conservatives. S ...

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13256 [lbo-talk] Dispiriting Suburbs? -- rank: 1000

On Oct 18, 2006, at 4:27 PM, chuck at mutualaid.org wrote: > The > new development is so crazy that I started counting the new Walgreen's > stores as I drove. Over 15 miles of new development, I drove past 3 > Walgreens, 2 CVSs, four McDonalds, three Targets, and much more. > But think of all the consumer choice, and at competitive prices! No wonder we're so happy!!

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13257 [lbo-talk] Dispiriting Suburbs? -- rank: 1000

On Oct 18, 2006, at 4:14 PM, James Heartfield wrote: > What I find depressing in the LBO discussion is that the radicals > have turned their faces against working class aspirations, leaving > right-wingers like Joel Kotkin to champion their ambitions for self- > betterment. No wonder suburbanites vote Republican, if they have to > put up with the blanket condemnation of their lifestyles from > radicals here. > > The argument that these aspirations are unsustainable seems ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 18 13:40:39 PDT 2006

13258 [lbo-talk] Dispiriting suburbs? Was Let's Build -- rank: 1000

On Oct 18, 2006, at 10:23 AM, Carl Remick wrote: > There are still oodles of purple mountains, spacious skies and > fruited plains here screaming for developer's imprint. Or, in the beautiful American jargon, "unimproved land." Doug

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13259 [lbo-talk] newish Bartels paper -- rank: 1000

<http://www.princeton.edu/~bartels/thinking.pdf> It Feels Like Weíre Thinking: The Rationalizing Voter and Electoral Democracy Christopher H. Achen Department of Politics and Center for the Study of Democratic Politics Princeton University Princeton, NJ 08544 achen at princeton.edu Larry M. Bartels Department of Politics and Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International A§airs Center for the Study of Democratic Politics Princeton University Princeton, NJ 08544 bartels at princeton.edu ...

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13260 [lbo-talk] Middle America may go sour over Iraq -- rank: 1000

On Oct 18, 2006, at 3:23 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6041658.stm > > but it is hardly a reason to celebrate. These people are scary. I'm tired of the trope that these folks are somehow the "real America." According to the 2000 Census, 77% of Pennsylvania's population is urban. About 50% of the state's population lives in two large metro areas alone, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. Fuck all that stuff about "churches, libraries and ...

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